Assessing the Degree of Job Satisfaction for Short-Term Contract Employment at TANESCO Ubungo, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Abstract

The focus of the article was to assess the degree of short-term contract employees’ satisfaction in TANESCO, at Ubungo, Dar es Salaam. Specifically, the article examined the challenges of renewal short-term employment contract on employees’ satisfaction. A cross-sectional research design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches was employed. Data were collected by using questionnaire to 80 employees of TANESCO, and in-depth interview to 10 managers of TANESCO. Analysis for quantitative information was firstly done descriptively by involving frequencies and percentages, then a bivariate analysis with chi-square (X2) to find out whether there is statistically significant between variables. For qualitative data, content analysis was applied. The results show that there were challenges facing employees in a renewal of short-term employment contract. The challenges include; a renewal needs more efforts in re-negotiation, fear of not given again the contract, and an employee can be terminated at any time. In bivariate analysis, the study found that the corrected value in chi-square (X2) for gender is 1.001 with significance level (p-value) of 0.011 which indicate that female employees are more likely (X2 starts from 1) to be challenged in renewal of a short-term contract. The corrected value for marital status is 1.613 with statistically significant p-value of 0.044 which indicates that married employees were more likely to be challenged in renewal of the short-term contract. The study concludes that employees at TANESCO who were faced with challenges during renewal of short-term contract.